Sentence examples for helps worsen from inspiring English sources

An ardent environmentalist, he concedes that the Excursion's fuel consumption (10 miles per gallon in the city, 13 on the highway) helps worsen global warming, and that its bulk (more than 7,500 pounds -- three times as heavy as a Honda Civic) puts other motorists at risk.

A determination to stick to the gold standard helped worsen the Great Depression.

The auto slowdown has helped worsen an increasingly nasty recession in Japan's export-dependent economy, the world's largest after the United States.

The housing market, whose collapse in a storm of foreclosures helped worsen the economic decline, has snapped back in many, though not all, parts of the state.

And all of this simply looks past an even more essential question: Why in the name of chicken and grits would Democrats want to help worsen the health care of millions of Americans?

The conditions of prisons add to the stress that cannot help but worsen their ailments.

Fixed but adjustable exchange rates helped to worsen the plight of the East Asian economies and others in the late 1990s.

The city began favoring working families over welfare recipients at its 322 housing projects in 1996, in an effort to reduce concentrations of poverty that officials believed had helped to worsen crime in and around the housing projects.

Meanwhile, Europe continues to stand by its 1998 moratorium on the import of genetically modified food a moratorium that supposedly costs American farmers $300m a year in lost corn exports alone.Mr Bush is off to Africa next month where he will probably argue that Europe's hostility to GM food is helping to worsen famine.

In that sense, it has helped to worsen China's economic imbalances by encouraging individual savings.

When questioned whether their own policies had helped to worsen the problem, they mostly demurred.